Ireland’s National Contemporary Art Fair

Michael Kane at RUBICON "few are angels"

[Image by Michael Kane from the series Life Story, mixed media on paper]
Michael Kane was already a famous artist when he started working with Rubicon Projects in 1990. He was a giant (literally, as well as figuratively – tall and rangy with a deep commanding voice and fearsomely strong views on anything that mattered or often anything at all). He has not lost any of this presence in the past 25 years. He could have intimidated any newly-minted “gallery girl” but he has two qualities that soften this profile; humour and humanity. Michael’s works on paper are a series light-touch rumination on the human condition. He often references the wisdom of Greek literature and mythology in his depiction of our tendency as humans towards adventures that come close to self-destruction or delinquency.
“We all are men, in our own natures frail, and capable of our flesh; few are angels.” William Shakespeare, Henry VIII
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